The Exchange
Directed by Mark Dechiazza2014 20mDocumentary, Music,
The Exchange is a simple story told through musical performance. This experimental documentary re-imagines the composition as a film. Set in an immigrant family's home in the Bronx, on a morning on which something transformative happens, the film documents a singular musical performance on a unique instrumental setup, blending sampling with spoken word. But it also serves an important function in terms of preserving a particular family's experiences with illness and war, with what happened in the privacy of one home and continues to happen in the privacy of homes like it.
